JP2001134899A - Centralized managing system for unmanned parking lot - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently maintain/manage plural unmanned parking lots with a limited number of persons. SOLUTION: Parking lot equipment 2 in the parking lot is provided with a self-diagnostic function and when any abnormality such as equipment trouble or money theft action occurs, an abnormality occurrence signal is transmitted to a command means 1. The command means 1 grasps the positions of plural traveling cars 3 at all the time and the positions of respective traveling cars 3 are displayed in real time on a map 1C. According to the abnormality occurrence signal, the command means 1 displays the parking lot, where abnormality occurs, the contents of abnormality, time of abnormality occurrence and the code of the traveling car at the present site close to the relevant parking lot or the like and the command means 1 issues a quick dispatching command to the traveling car, which can be quickly dispatched to the relevant parking lot in a short time, while showing the summary of abnormality or the like.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a system for managing unmanned parking lots, and more particularly to a system for centrally managing a plurality of unmanned parking lots.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As an effective use of vacant lots, a number of hourly rental parking lots are installed and used mainly in urban areas.
This kind of parking lot has been made unmanned and labor-saving by managing parking and clearing the parking fee by automatic equipment. Specifically, in the case of a lock-type parking device, the lock is released by inputting a fee corresponding to the parking time, and the vehicle can exit. In a parking lot having a gate device, a predetermined fee is charged when a vehicle exits, so that the gate is opened and the vehicle can exit.

[0003]

In the above-described unmanned parking system, in order to cope with a failure of the parking equipment or to prevent a crime, a staff member periodically patrols to discover the failure of the equipment, collect money, and abnormally. Checks for the presence of However, as the number of parking lots increases, the number of patrols for each parking lot decreases with limited staff, maintenance and inspection are neglected,
The incidence of crimes such as theft of money from money changers will also increase. Conversely, increasing the number of staff would be against labor savings.

[0004] In particular, recently, for the purpose of stealing money, situations in which parking lot installation devices such as currency exchange machines are destroyed frequently occur. Such crimes cannot be adequately addressed by conventional simple patrols. In addition, if the number of parking facilities increases, the absolute number of failures of parking equipment will inevitably increase, but crimes such as equipment failures and theft are basically unpredictable. Depending on the method, even if the number of staff is increased, it is very difficult to immediately dispatch staff to a parking lot where a breakdown or crime has occurred.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a centralized parking lot management system constructed in view of the above problems. That is, the present invention provides a parking device such as a currency exchange machine, a gate device for opening and closing a parking lot entrance and exit, a vehicle lock device for locking a parked vehicle, a command device for centrally managing a plurality of parking lots, and a moving device such as an automobile. Patrol means consisting of staff moving by
It has a communication means formed between the three parties, and the parking lot device has a function of creating self-diagnosis data such as the presence or absence of a failure and data such as payment of a fee, and transmits the data created by this function. Means are provided, the commanding means has means for detecting the current position of the plurality of patrol means, grasps the state in the predetermined parking lot from various data output from the parking lot equipment via the communication means, and If it becomes necessary to dispatch a staff member to a specific parking lot,
This is a parking lot management system configured to select a patrol means capable of rushing to the parking lot in the shortest time and rush to the parking lot.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A parking lot device detects whether there is an abnormality such as a self-failure, a stealing of money, a destruction of a device, or the like by a predetermined program. If it is determined by this program that there is an abnormality, a failure, vandalism or the like is determined within a range that can be determined by the program, and data is output in real time to the command means via the communication means.

On the other hand, the command means always keeps track of the positions of the plurality of patrol means (patrol vehicles), and if data relating to the occurrence of an abnormality is input from a specific parking lot, the command means can rush to the parking lot in the shortest time. The patrol vehicle is selected, and the patrol vehicle is instructed to rush to the parking lot where the abnormal data is output. Usually, the patrol vehicle closest to the parking lot where the abnormality has occurred is selected, but depending on the road conditions such as the presence of traffic congestion and the presence or absence of a railroad crossing, the closest patrol vehicle can always arrive in the shortest time. Not necessarily. The instructing means always keeps track of the road conditions indicated on the map, for example, and gives instructions to the patrol means capable of rushing to a predetermined parking lot in as short a time as possible including this information.

In addition to the above-described abnormalities, for example, when there is a possibility that a change in the amount of coins in a change machine becomes small and there is a possibility that the change will be hindered, or when the number of exchanged bills increases, crimes such as theft will occur. If the damage amount increases, a coin addition request or a bill collection request is transmitted based on a preset program, and the command unit transmits a predetermined patrol vehicle signal in response to this signal. Go to the parking lot and add coins or collect bills.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2 specifically show the configuration of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 denotes a commanding means, reference numeral 2 denotes various parking equipment installed in the parking lot, and reference numeral 3 denotes a means (hereinafter referred to as "patrol car") for a staff member who performs maintenance and inspection of the parking lot and the parking equipment. The command means 1, the parking equipment 2, and the patrol car 3 are configured to be able to mutually transmit and receive data via the communication means 4.

The command means 1 is for centrally managing each parking lot. For example, a computing means 1A such as a computer for processing various information, an operator 1B operating the computing means 1A, and each operator 1B are simultaneously visible. It is composed of a map 1C and the like which are enlarged and displayed on a possible wall surface.

The term "parking equipment" indicated by reference numeral 2 is necessary for parking installed in a parking lot, such as a change machine, a gate device for opening and closing a parking lot entrance and exit, a vehicle locking device for locking a parked vehicle, and the like. Used as a generic term for various devices. These parking lot devices 2 have a function of detecting the presence or absence of a self-failure, the presence or absence of a criminal act such as vandalism against the device (hereinafter referred to as a “self-diagnosis function” including a function of detecting the presence or absence of a criminal act) 2a. Alternatively, it has functions such as a calculation function 2b for calculating the amount of money inserted, and calculating the remaining amount of coins and bills.

The commanding means 1, the parking equipment 2 and the patrol car 3 are provided with transmitting / receiving devices TR1, TR2,
TR3 is provided. Although it is not impossible to use a general telephone line as the communication means 4, digital wireless communication is effective in consideration of shortening of communication time, large-capacity communication, real-time performance, and the like.

In the above configuration, the patrol vehicle 3 always checks its own position by means of the current location specifying means such as the GPS satellite 5 and issues a command for its own position continuously or at intervals of several minutes. Transmit to means 1. The commanding means 1 constantly grasps the position of each patrol vehicle based on the position information from each patrol vehicle 3 and displays the position of each patrol vehicle 3 on the map 1C.

Next, in the parking lot equipment 2 installed in each parking lot, a code is assigned to a specific parking lot as an installation location and each parking lot equipment of the parking lot. When transmitting the data, the parking lot code and the parking lot equipment code are also transmitted at the same time. Therefore, the command means 1 transmits the data from any one of the parking lots in any one of the parking lots in addition to the content of the transmitted data. Is immediately known.

FIG. 3 shows a self-diagnosis function of the flap type parking lot equipment and a function corresponding to the self-diagnosis result. First, when the parked vehicle C is parked at a predetermined parking position as shown in FIG. 1, the member wrapping type parking device detects this and the flap plate FB stands to prevent the parked vehicle from exiting. This is a parking lot device configured so that the flap plate FB is lowered by inputting an appropriate amount of money, so that the parked vehicle C can exit.

In FIG. 3, in the parking lot apparatus having the above-described structure, as a self-diagnosis function, first, a flap lowering command is issued to the flap elevating mechanism based on a signal of appropriate payment such as insertion of a predetermined amount and payment of a card. It is determined whether or not it is not (SA1). In the state where the flap descent command is issued, it is determined whether or not the flap is actually lowered by the sensor provided on the flap (SA2). If the actual descent can be confirmed, the apparatus is operating normally. It waits for the next parking and enters standby (SA4).

On the other hand, if the lowering of the flap cannot be confirmed at step SA2, it means that the flap lowering operation is not performed despite the correct payment, so it is determined that a failure has occurred and the data of the occurrence of the failure is transmitted and received by the transmission / reception means TR2. Transmit (SA5).

FIG. 4 shows a display example of the command means 1 receiving this signal. Reference numeral 6 denotes the content of the display data, which is enlarged and displayed on the arithmetic means 1A of the command means 1 or on the wall surface. In the illustrated configuration, both the display of the map 6A and the bibliographic items 6B such as the details of the occurrence of the abnormality are displayed.

First, since the parking lot where the abnormality has occurred is determined in real time from the code of the received data, the parking lot where the abnormality has occurred among the parking lots shown on the map is indicated. In the illustrated configuration, the lightning arrow is configured to indicate the parking lot where the abnormality has occurred.However, this parking lot portion blinks or is displayed in a color different from the surrounding color such as red. A display is provided so that the parking lot where the required abnormality has occurred can be clearly confirmed on the map.

In the bibliographic section 6B, the location of the parking lot and the parking lot code (P24 in the illustrated case), the symptom of the abnormality, the time of occurrence of the abnormality, the presence or absence of crime, the vehicle code of the nearby patrol vehicle, etc. are displayed. Is done. Car 35 and 1 on Map 6A
Since the current location of the fifth car is displayed, the operator 1B of the command means issues a command to the patrol car that can rush to the P24 parking lot in the shortest time. In this case, the command means 1 always keeps track of road conditions such as traffic congestion information, and issues an express command to appropriate patrol vehicles including these information, including transmission of the contents of the bibliographic items 6B. If there is no problem in patrol of another parking lot, an express command may be issued to a plurality of patrol vehicles. In the transmission at step SA5 in FIG. 3, the evaluation of the criminal property is (none), and the data is output to the command means 1 because it is considered to be a simple mechanical failure.

Returning to FIG. 3, if there is no flap lowering command signal in step SA1, it is determined whether or not an overload is applied to the flap rotating shaft (SA6). The overload state refers to a state in which a load is applied to the flap in a downward direction with respect to the axis of the flap in the upright state by a predetermined value or more because a load is applied to the flap. The presence or absence of overload can be easily detected by providing a torque sensor for the flap rotation shaft.

If there is no overload in the above state, it indicates that the parking state is continued without any problem. Conversely, if there is an overload, it means that the vehicle is trying to exit illegally after climbing over the upright flap, even though the flap is in the upright state. Sending data as there is (SA
7). The torque sensor reacts naturally even if a person gets on the flap plate, so the torque value when a load greater than the weight of the person (for example, 100 kg or more) is applied is set as a threshold value,
If a torque greater than this is detected, settings such as judging an overload are made. If data is received in step SA7, the criminal column of the bibliographic item 6B is displayed as (Yes).

FIG. 5 shows, among the self-diagnosis functions, a function for detecting the presence or absence of a crime aimed at stealing money. This function is particularly suitable for detecting the presence or absence of a criminal act against a money changer in which a considerable amount of money is constantly stored, among parking equipment. The heat exchanger uses a burner to detect heat generated by fusing, a door open / close detection sensor to detect prying with a bar or other device, a locking sensor to check for locking, and a shock to the housing. Sensors such as acceleration sensors are installed in advance.

First, a temperature sensor constantly detects the temperature of a housing such as a changer (SB1). If the detected temperature becomes higher than a predetermined value, it is determined that the housing may be blown. The data is transmitted to the command means 1 (SB2). The command means 1 is a map 6A and a bibliographic matter 6B as shown in FIG.
Is displayed. In this case, the column of the symptom of the bibliographic item displays, for example, “Possible fusing. Criminal (Yes)” or the like, and indicates that the probability that the crime is progressing is high. In addition,
In addition to the configuration of this case, in the parking lot that is the crime scene,
It is more effective to use a means that informs the surroundings that a crime has occurred by warning, light emission, smoke emission, and the like and makes it difficult to carry out the crime.

On the other hand, when the detected temperature is equal to or lower than the specified value, the acceleration is detected by the acceleration sensor (SB3). The acceleration sensor transmits data indicating that the device may be destroyed when an impact of a predetermined value or more is applied to the parking device (SB4). By the way, crimes have become more violent these days, and it is anticipated that currency changers that are firmly installed on the ground may be carried away with heavy equipment such as construction equipment along with their casings. The acceleration sensor is very effective for such a situation.

Next, when the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor is equal to or less than the specified value including the acceleration of zero, it is detected whether the door of the housing is open or closed (SB5). If the door is "closed", there is no problem. When the door "open" is detected, it is next determined whether or not the lock on this door is "open" (SB6). If the lock "open" is detected, this means that the door has been properly opened using the key, and in this case, a standby state is set (SB7).

On the contrary, when the lock “open” is not detected,
Since the door is opened in the locked state, that is, the door is opened, the data is transmitted to the command means as "possible opening" (SB8). As mentioned above,
If it is deemed criminal (possible), the command means issues an express command to the patrol car and informs the police if necessary. When the patrol car arrives at the designated parking lot and the staff confirms that the crime has occurred, the patrol car informs the police.

FIG. 6 shows a clearing function in the money changer for detecting the remaining amount of coins and bills. The money changer is provided with a counter for detecting the type of coin and the remaining amount for each type, and a counter for detecting the type of bill and the inserted amount for each type.
Such counters are always checked (SC
1). First, the remaining amount of coins is detected (SC2), and if the remaining amount is equal to or less than the specified value, there is a possibility that the exchanged coins may be insufficient, and a coin addition request is transmitted (SC3). On the other hand, when the remaining coin amount is equal to or more than the specified value, the amount of inserted bills is detected (SC4). In a money changer, the number of bills increases, contrary to coins. If the number of bills exceeds a specified amount, a bill collection request is sent (SC5), and the damage amount is reduced even if there is a crime such as theft. To do it.

In response to the request, the command means 1 instructs the patrol car 3 to replenish coins, collect bills, and the like in response to the request. Note that, in the case of a coin replenishment request, bill collection may be performed simultaneously, and in the case of a bill collection request, coin replenishment may be performed simultaneously. In the above-described embodiment, the patrol vehicle is shown as a means for moving the staff who performs maintenance and inspection of the parking lot. However, it is also possible to use a smaller moving means such as a motorcycle or a scooter.

[0030]

As described in the above embodiments, according to the present invention, it is possible to centrally manage a plurality of parking lots, and to constantly grasp the position of a patrol vehicle for performing maintenance and inspection while patroling each parking lot. It is possible, and when an abnormality occurs in the parking lot, the parking lot where the abnormality has occurred and the details of the abnormality can be specifically grasped. This enables effective maintenance and management with a small number of personnel for the number of parking lots.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing a configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the configuration shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a self-diagnosis system when the parking lot device is a lock-type parking device using a flap plate.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a map provided in the instruction means.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a function for detecting the presence or absence of theft of stored money.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a clearing function for determining replenishment and collection of stored coins and bills.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Command means 2 Parking equipment 3 Patrol car 4 Communication means 5 GPS satellite 6A Map 6B Bibliographic items TR1, TR2, TR3 Transceiver

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A system for managing an unmanned parking lot having parking equipment such as a currency exchange machine, a gate device for opening / closing a parking lot entrance / exit, and a vehicle locking device for locking a parked vehicle. Command means for centrally managing the parking lot of the parking lot, and patrol means for the parking lot which is moved by a traveling means such as a patrol car and comprises a staff member who performs maintenance and management of the parking lot. The means is configured to be able to mutually transmit and receive data by the communication means, the parking equipment has a self-diagnosis function of detecting the presence or absence of its own failure, the presence or absence of crime, and the presence or absence of settlement of at least its own failure, The commanding means has a function of grasping the current locations of the plurality of patrol means, and is configured to instruct the optimal patrol means to rush to the parking lot by a signal from the parking lot equipment. Centralized management system for unmanned parking lots. 2. A parking device is provided with a clearing function, which monitors the amount of coins and bills stored in the parking device, and when the amount of coins falls below a specified value, or 2. A centralized management system for unmanned parking lots according to claim 1, wherein a signal is issued to the command means when the amount of the parking lot exceeds a specified value. 3. The unmanned parking lot according to claim 1, wherein the self-diagnosis function of the parking lot device is provided with a function of estimating whether an abnormality has occurred due to a malfunction or a criminal act. Centralized management system. 4. The centralized management of an unmanned parking lot according to claim 1, wherein the command means is provided with a map indicating the location of each parking lot and the current location of each patrol means. system. 5. The instructing means is provided with a function such as a name of the parking lot where the abnormality has occurred accompanying the map, a description of the abnormality, an abnormality occurrence time, and a display of a patrol means whose current location is close to the abnormality-occurring parking lot. The centralized management system for an unmanned parking lot according to claim 4, wherein: 6. The self-position confirmation by the patrol means is G
The centralized management system for an unmanned parking lot according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the present location is confirmed by a position confirmation unit using a PS satellite and the confirmed current position is transmitted to a command unit.